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Given that Trump's base doesn't seem to believe/care about any of this, is there any evidence that "undecided" or moderate voters care?

I guess I don't want to discount women coming forward, whether it has any effect in November or not, but I'm curious about the potential election consequences.

This feels ironic given Trump's ideas on registering Muslims or making them carry special IDs.

10 Professions That Attract the Most Sociopaths

>7 - Policeman

>The power of life and death on your hip, a badge of authority on your chest, a uniform of distinction, and a really loud siren! Everyone’s familiar with the stereotype of a bad cop — those officers who readily abuse their power, resent the people they are meant to protect, and use cold-hearted superiority to justify their viciousness. It's an unfortunate reality that some of the biggest criminals lurk among those who've sworn to uphold the law.

-psychologist Kevin Dutton

> Republicanism is Republicanism, and for most voters, it is based more on group attachments and resentments than it is on ideology.

This study presents more evidence of what I feel is pretty palpable: that "conservative" movements and voter base is not about traditional principles so much as a tribal in-group vs. out-group. Sen. Flake, who as a dedicated conservative describes this phenomenon himself:

> Flake admits that may seem like "a preposterous claim," given that they control the government. "But make no mistake, as a governing philosophy, conservatism is indeed in crisis — and not in spite of this apparent success but because of it," later blasting self-described conservatives for changing their political stripes "depending on fashion or the passions of the day or based on how much applause a line in a speech received at a rally."

While I'm not a conservative, the things traditional conservatives argue for are at least constructive: free markets, strong families, and fiscal responsibility. I just wish this conservative perspective could find better ways to be promoted. The us-vs-them politics of Trump pose nothing to gain at all, except a feeling of power and security.

I've seen some on twitter this morning saying traffic was at 63M and that was a drop; only stats I can find are here and show a drop but not that large. Alexa's stats page is here but traffic stats are only available with a paid subscription.

The Dow is a terrible measure of the economy.

According to actual measures of economic growth, the US had the the slowest quarter in three years.

Of course, Trump probably had nothing to do with these measurements as nothing he has done could have had a significant economic effect yet - it will be a long while before we see the effects of the few policies he has passed.

> Many of the fake profiles used AI generated photos - a relatively new phenomenon that allows computers to create realistic looking images of people who don't exist. Unlike stolen profile images of real people, the AI generated images, which are created by a type of machine learning framework called StyleGAN, cannot be traced using a reverse image search.

This is such a scary tool that could be used to create fake profiles. If you haven't seen it for yourself, check out https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ and see how realistic AI created people can look now.

>That's the nasty part, not the <1% bit.

That really depends on where you live, but yeah, they fail to mention the very important part that the majority of the donations left over after expenses goes to Proselytizing secular Jews.

As for the real estate part, that was bad luck or a poor choice, losses can happen in real estate investments.

A non profit can invest money, why would they do that?
For a more steady income, for example, if they get a million dollar donation they can distribute it, or they can buy a building, lets say they make about 10% ROI(return on investment) per year, that means they are getting a steady stream of about $100,000 per year for the organization to distribute to their causes while still still having never lost the initial million dollars as they can sell the building at any time.

So if they sell after ten years, they turned a million dollar donation into a(roughly) two million dollar donation, that's a good thing for the non profits causes as they get more money, of course they also set themselves up to possibly lose the money if the investment goes bad.

I'm not sure that it would really be possible even then unless everything was condensed into one single program that could view webpages. If there's an open standard to view something, you can make anything to view it.

There are things like w3m and Lynx are even able to view web pages in just a text based environment instead of fully rendered webpage.

The proposed WHO rules to promote breastfeeding and discourage the use of infant formula is designed to promote the health of babies. There are numerous studies demonstrating that breastmilk is healthier for babies than formula.

The following quote from WebMD.com is standard advice.

https://www.webmd.com/parenting/baby/nursing-basics

"Making the decision to breastfeed is a personal matter. It's also one that's likely to draw strong opinions from friends and family. Many medical experts, including the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, strongly recommend breastfeeding exclusively (no formula, juice, or water) for 6 months. And breastfeeding for a year at least with other foods which should be started at 6 months of age, such as vegetables, grains, fruits, proteins."

I was born in the 1950's and was bottle-fed formula. As a result, I have food sensitivities, a common outcome of not being breastfed. If i eat foods that trigger my sensitivities I suffer for more than 10 days. So I don't eat out. And I have to carefully monitor my food.

It took me years to understand what was happening to me because symptoms didn't appear until three days after the exposure.

He also said

>" Maybe I handed him ten bucks for attorney client privilege, whatever. But I never had any matter with him between him and any third party.

https://www.iheart.com/live/the-sean-hannity-show-247-6706/

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/8cqdup/megathread_sean_hannity_named_as_michael_cohens/dxgzr9f/

False comparison both in scope and knowledge

1. Hillary doesn't know who buys her books.

2. The amount of money that's paid for to stay at the Trump hotels $1800/day is enormously larger than the fee one pays for a book $14.

3. Hillary wasn't in office when she was giving her speaking engagements (your source above)

Edited for sources as per rule 2

> The net is that the article isn’t really about DC or the protesters, but rather to raise awareness about the reliability of video as a medium and how we should be critical consumers in this viral video age.

And take it one step further, with a sprinkling of Chomsky salt: the media has an agenda and they will do their best to exploit cherrypicking of video, text, audio, etc. to tell their own narrative. Viral videos are certainly dangerous since there's no level of editorial oversight. But even editors at large corporate media see their "wall" between content and business broken down to spin stories a certain way. The most common tool is "lie by omission" since it technically isn't lying or dirty. In fact, it's even similar to the original Lincoln Memorial video.

edit: I realize a book isn't the most accessible source for /r/neutralnews, but the wikipedia article does a decent enough job summarizing the main topics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

Sorry - didn't realize they had finally turned on their paywall.

FYI, if javascript is turned off, a browser will ignore a lot of paywalls. Although that breaks a lot of other stuff, so best to be able to toggle it on/off easily. I use,

• https://github.com/dpacassi/disable-javascript
• https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix

The Republicans aren't against the electrification project specifically. They are asking for the federal government to withhold the money for the electrification project until the state of California performs an audit on the high speed train.

They think the high speed train is going to be way over budget and the whole project will never provide the train that was promised with the provided budget.

See the letter from the california congressional delegation: https://www.slideshare.net/alevin/2017-01-24-ca-rep-delegation-letter-to-secretary-chao-on-high-speed-rail

I heard it on All Things Considered yesterday, so I can't find the exact source, but this article talks about the bill:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/06/568838360/watch-president-trump-to-speak-on-jerusalem

Relevant enough that President Trump semi-obsesses over their coverage of him.

1. Recent twitter story re: person of the year.

2. Fake Time cover image of Trump on display at his golf clubs.

It seems the prosecutors also had reason to believe there would not be that many attorney client privileged documents in the first place:

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/04/13/politics/michael-cohen-hearing-fbi-raid/index.html

"The prosecutors assert that they have confidence that any seized material would not fall under the significant amount of attorney-client privilege that Cohen has claimed. They said Cohen has told at least one witness that his only client was Trump."

They are severely limiting the scope of what the Clean Water Act itself applies to. Not just rolling back the Obama era rule.

>Under the new plan, according to the EPA, the Clean Water Act would only apply to traditional navigable water, tributaries to navigable waters, certain ditches large enough to be used for navigation or subject to tides, lakes and ponds, impoundments and wetlands adjacent to any of those. > >The Clean Water Act would no longer apply to "features that only contain water during or in response to rainfall (e.g., ephemeral features); groundwater; many ditches, including most roadside or farm ditches; prior converted cropland; stormwater control features; and waste treatment systems."

Any which way it is inexcusable to hurt the health of countless people and wildlife with this rollback.

And, again, calling the BBC's coverage deranged was inappropriate and incorrect.

>A psycho wanting to kill as many people as possible will find a way.

I don't think you can be as confident about that as you seem to be. It may seem to make sense but I'm honestly not sure.

This isn't exactly the same but just as a similar example - many people assume that suicide works that way. It makes sense that someone who wants to kill themselves will find a way to do it and if one way isn't an option, they'll find another way. But there are a number of studies showing that that's not the case. It's an impulsive thing and one single barrier can make them change their mind. In England, death by asphyxiation from breathing oven fumes had accounted for roughly half of all suicides up until the 1970s, when Britain began converting ovens from coal gas, which contains lots of carbon monoxide, to natural gas, which has almost none. During that time, suicides plummeted roughly 30 percent — and the numbers haven't changed since.. So many people were killing themselves because it was so easy and accessible. That's why simply owning a gun is a risk factor for suicide.

Now, obviously these mass shootings don't have the impulsivity of suicide. I'm not making the argument that it does. But the suicide example definitely makes me question assumptions like that. I don't know if these shooters would just try to find another way to get the guns illegally (or if they would even know where to find them).

>No surprises here: according to a 2008 ruling made in a federal court, customs agents at U.S. airports can inspect the contents of passengers’ laptop computers. They don’t even need any evidence to do so. The Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco declared a computer to be no different to a suitcase, car or any other property subject to search at an international border.

From my link. http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/smartphone-laptop-searches-know-rights/

Interesting, I found this article relating to SALT taxes, since I wasn't clear on that. Thanks. NPR Salt article

I'm not saying you are wrong, but supporting, enabling and doing business with authoritarian dictatorships has been US foreign policy status quo for over a century

Of course I would love authoritarian regimes to have a reduction in their global influence, but singling out China for tariffs for their authoritarian regime would be hilariously hypocritical

You could get sent back home. It is common practice to ask for it to be opened, not just in the USA, but everywhere else in the world.

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/smartphone-laptop-searches-know-rights/

Urgh. It's like a bad bible story. Two motivated lying assholes are giving us a different version of events, which one do you chose?

I'm inclined to believe Cohen because I'm primed to believe the worst about Trump. But Cohen's just the kind of idiot who would make something like this up to get revenge.

Or worse, he's still loyal and doing the ultimate fall-on-your-sword routine and as soon as we accept his testimony as evidence he'll cackle and say 'but I was lying all the time!!!!!!!'

And if you think that sounds like the kind of thing middle schoolers would cook up, remind yourself that this is pretty much Cohen's wheelhouse.

If Mueller is smart (and he is) he'll use Cohen to try to smoke out other witnesses or he already has got everything he can from it by forcing Trump to react.

Well, when you start fiddling with such a large part of the economy, you're going to effect employment (source loosely related to my statement).

I believe this will still be a net positive for the state, especially with the uncertainty that is trumpcare ... or whatever stunt republicans try next.

The special enrollment periods are part of the ACA and I am pretty sure it'd take an act of Congress to change that. The ACA requires that

>The Secretary shall require an Exchange to provide for ... special enrollment periods specified in section 9801 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and other special enrollment periods under circumstances similar to such periods under part D of title XVIII of the Social Security Act

There'd be some wiggle room about the SSA-defined open enrollment periods because the statute says "similar to" which opens the door to executive discretion in rulemaking. But there's no wiggle room about the ones defined in the Internal Revenue Code.

The president said in a speech that the US would be pulling out of Syria "very soon". It literally came from the commander-in-chief's lips. If we can't trust that then what can we trust?

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/29/politics/trump-withdraw-syria-pentagon/index.html

I think you're ignoring the larger context. Trump has numerous corroborated allegations of sexual assault, just because these women couldn't stop him didn't mean they let him, at least that is what's alleged here. https://www.npr.org/2016/10/13/497799354/a-list-of-donald-trumps-accusers-of-inappropriate-sexual-conduct

It is already established law that they can do this at the border.

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/smartphone-laptop-searches-know-rights/

The reason this is a big deal to border law enforcement is because one can use it to validate your reason for visiting a country. If you watch any "border patrol" show on Netflix or hulu or wherever, you will see they use peoples phones to verify they are there to just vacation or visit, not work.

Now, if they were to clone a sim card or do other nefarious shit with it, like download your nudies, etc... then yeah, that is a problem.

At current rates, that's USD$14.53 according to https://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/convert/?Amount=12&amp;From=EUR&amp;To=USD so roughly tracking their US rates.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/28/amazon-to-hike-wages-for-over-500000-workers-to-up-to-3-an-hour.html

> Amazon announced Wednesday it will raise wages by between 50 cents and $3 an hour for more than half a million of its U.S. operations employees.

...

> Amazon in 2018 raised its minimum wage to $15 an hour for all U.S. employees, following pressure from politicians and worker advocacy groups.

From this article:

> In 1995, Congress passed a law calling for the U.S. to recognize Jerusalem as the Israeli capital and for the embassy to be moved to Jerusalem. But every president since then has chosen to waive that law, putting off implementation six months at a time. Trump was expected to extend that waiver, while also initiating plans to move the embassy eventually.

So there's plenty of precedent of simply pushing back the deadline 6 months at a time. Three presidents before Trump have repeatedly done that.

I am getting a master's degree right now and if it goes through my taxes could go up 300 percent if they change my fellowship to be earned income. So essentially, making 18,000 a year I would have to pay taxes on almost 50,000 bucks. That's a real pisser.

My pleasure!

It's a pretty good podcast, although some of the episodes can be a bit dry (depends on the guests/host/topic). Usually the ones hosted by Ben Wittes are good.

The Ezra Klein Podcast is another one I like a lot for evidence based discussion. He's pretty liberal, but is a great interviewer who often invites conservative guests who articulate themselves well.

Haha, I'm not speaking for myself. I was referring to the data that the op posted. https://www.fool.com/retirement/2016/10/10/the-average-american-has-this-401k-balance-how-do.aspx

Try to focus more on the argument and not the person. My finances aren't relevant, but for what it's worth I am well above average and median in my 401k for my age group.

As far as benefiting from 401k growth, I think it's quite obvious that those with more will gain more. Those with a modest holding will see a proportional increase. Nothing shocking about that.

According to the article:

>They find that male train and bus drivers worked about 83 percent more overtime than their female colleagues and were twice as likely to accept an overtime shift—which pays time-and-a-half—on short notice and that around twice as many women as men never took overtime. The male workers took 48 percent fewer unpaid hours off under the Family Medical Leave Act each year.

The difference in that specific instance was due to men working more overtime and taking less unpaid time off. Not any inherent difference in the hourly rate that men were paid over what women were paid.

My understanding of the wage gap is that it is defined as:

>the difference between the amounts of money paid to women and men, often for doing the same work

For different accepted definitions of the gender wage gap, I could see how my statement would be wrong. And another user linked to the study, which addresses ways to make overtime more accessible to women and a few other suggestions for addressing the income gap.

My point was more that when you eliminate factors that disadvantage women from getting the same hourly rate as men, of course the gap between men and women would vanish, and that this is not universal, as the original article attempts to claim.

> Sessions is recused so he has nothing to do with the Russia probe.

Wrong, Sessions is recused, and he knows what we all do:

1. Trump has publicly said he is angry that Sessions took the position of AG if he was going to recuse himself. (No stretch, fact)

2. Trump has publicly stated that he views Session's role as a legal protector (like how Holder protected Obama) src

3. And it has been widely stated that Trump has tried to get Mueller fired multiple times, and Sessions being around impedes that. src

4. AS I SAID: He has first hand knowledge (unlike ours) of a plan to obstruct justice. That plan will proceed if Rosenstein is fired. IF HE STICKS AROUND HE WILL BE PARTY TO A PLOT TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE

> Just because he doesn't quit if he President fires someone doesn't mean he's obstructing

I didn't say that. Don't say I said things I didn't.

> You don't think that the news story all day yesterday and the day before was that the US intelligence agency had confirmed the stuff CNN and Buzzfeed were reporting?

Can you show me an example of a reputable news source making that claim? I know I saw plenty of confused reddit comments, but didn't see anything about the intelligence community confirming the veracity of the dossier in any of the articles that were submitted. I think people have been commenting after just reading the headline or barely skimming the articles, and that makes it easy for them to become confused. But the grammar and sentence structure of the articles hasn't been intentionally confusing.

For what it's worth I highly recommend the NYTimes' coverage of this event. They've avoided printing any of the unverified claims, and have been good about giving a thorough overview of everything. They have a number of articles but this one is a good overview: How a Sensational, Unverified Dossier Became a Crisis for Donald Trump

Even the title makes it clear the document is unverified.

https://www.npr.org/2017/09/30/554506190/trump-s-tax-plan-has-echoes-of-the-kansas-tax-cut-experiment

I'm a Kansas citizen and we can tell you without a doubt that this method doesn't work. We went years with missed projections for tax income for the state. They had to cut from nearly everything in the state, until they started forcing state employees to take extra days off to avoid paying them. Our state has lagged behind every other state in our region in lowering unemployment and raising wages. Nearly every state employee went without even a cost of living raise for years. What they did succeed in doing to was force people who had been working for the state for decades off the payroll, but they haven't been properly funding the retirement program. That time bomb is waiting to go off for some future administration, since he is bailing out to to work for Trump.

For you to not want to do that stuff, fine. There is no reason for you to think that others want to wait for you to ask and someone else to answer instead of taking 10 seconds to change an option that will help them in the future. And what do you do when no one answers?

If you want to try this and are on desktop, here is a good addon that gets by lots of paywalls.

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

Firefox link can be found in the read.me text

I'm here in NY and I'd say the day was very nice, high of 85, low humidity, breezy, especially nearer to the water.

The ceremony started around 8:30AM (first bell tolls were 8:46AM), NY Times says around an hour and half into the ceremony Hilary left. That would be about 10:00AM.

Temperature at the time was rising and were somewhere between 79F and 85F with low humidity.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/12/nyregion/15th-anniversary-9-11-september-11.html https://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=10007

Just my opinion but I can see someone sweating and being uncomfortable in anything more than shorts and a t-shirt. But you'd have to be elderly or in bad health to collapse from standing outdoors in the morning for just an hour and a half.

> Well, since they bothered to get health insurance in the first place (can't stop health insurance if they don't have it first), we can safely assume that a good portion of them wants it.

...Except that with Obamacare, people were fined if they did not buy health insurance.

So arguing that 'because they bought health insurance they must want it' isn't really accurate, because it implies that they chose to buy insurance, when it's just as reasonable that some of them would have bought insurance solely to avoid the fines.

It's a non-starter, there's no way of determining what proportion of people did want insurance or did not want insurance.

That's because it was likely edited by Congressional staff just like they did the Wikipedia article.

https://thenextweb.com/insider/2018/09/27/devils-triangle-wikipedia-entry-edited-by-anonymous-member-of-congress-after-kavanaugh-hearing/

Here is the definition of the word, &quot;news&quot;: > 1 a : a report of recent events <gave her the good news>
> b : previously unknown information <I've got news for you>

I'm mostly joking in the way I'm being patronizing in this comment, as I'm aware that "newsworthy" can mean "controversial," and that's of course what you mean. But I haven't seen this as being controversial. Is it? All I see here is reporting of something new that is happening.

I know that news websites sometimes suggest that things are controversial--suggesting there is outrage over something--when in fact they are pretty much the only ones creating this outrage (such as outrage over the holiday designs of Starbucks cups). Yet I don't even see that in this story. It's a simple report about something that is going to happen.

Did I miss something? If not, let's not play into manufacturing false outrage, as that is a huge distraction.

Hmm, I think I misstated myself with:

>release this information

Really (as you show) it isn't about this particular email, rather a chain of contacts between Jr. and Wikileaks. Is not like there weren't further releases on Clinton from Wikileaks after this email

We already know he continued talking to them (note the date on the tweets). If anything, it just chalks up another misleading statement:

>Here is the entire chain of messages with @wikileaks (with my whopping 3 responses) which one of the congressional committees has chosen to selectively leak. How ironic! 1/3

Why didn't he disclose this email then?

If you're a human, and have been treated medically in the past, then you probably have a "pre-existing condition". Without the ACA, you can be denied insurance coverage, or charged more for it.

As a 25-year-old adult, if the ACA goes away, you might lose your coverage under your parents' plan.

First, again... the Dems fought to get rid of the law that says they cannot sell across state lines.

I guess they already can(I didnt know this either)... http://acasignups.net/16/01/06/scratch-another-attack-point-list-obamacare-already-allows-carriers-sell-insurance-across

Second, there are plenty of insurance companies in every state. Want to know how to look them up?

https://www.healthcare.gov

> This is complete bullshit and is not necessary. If you produce enough milk to feed your child that's exactly all they need, all this is doing is trying to water down a public health measure for the sake of corporate profits

I don't think your analyzing that correctly and are maybe reading a bit too far into it. Most babies start transitioning to solids at 4-6 months depending on their development. The recommendation seems to be exactly that, breastfeed for six months then introduce other foods. No corporate profits necessary, especially considering at home purees aren't very difficult to make.

Edit: Also it would seem the WHO agrees:

> WHO recommends that infants start receiving complementary foods at six months (180 days) of age in addition to breast milk. Foods should be adequate, meaning that they provide sufficient energy, protein and micronutrients to meet a growing child's nutritional needs.

> Germany is also much smaller than the United States so it goes without saying there's less crime of any kind.

I don't actually think that goes without saying. Why would smaller countries inherently have less crime per capita?

Comparison of the US and Germany on a per capita basis:

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/10/06/555861898/gun-violence-how-the-u-s-compares-to-other-countries

Amazon has it on dvd, but you'll need a non-regional or region 2 player to watch the film.

I dunno. I checked Amazon and found one for over $12k (with free shipping!). Probably ordered something similar (in construction materials), but larger.

That is kind of weird. The weather report for Bucha definitely doesn't mention near freezing temperatures:

https://www.accuweather.com/en/ua/bucha/324354/march-weather/324354 https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/ukraine/kyiv/historic

Im fact, it would seem that the temperatures were the warmest days in the month, well above freezing temperatures.

Thanks for the Reuters article, though, it seems nor much has been verified as of yet, will keep my eyes open.

> wasn't the individual mandate a republican provision?

This NPR article says it was part of a GOP supported bill back in the Clinton administration. I'm not sure who backed it this time around, but I doubt it was the GOP.

I'm not trying to say the GOP is a victim here, just that the Democrats aren't guiltless either. I'm honestly surprised at how little either party gets done when they have a majority.

People need to understand how Robinhood works before they accuse them of being completely on the side of Citadel.

They did this because Robinhood accounts are all on margin. Meaning, if they allow people to continue buying into GME, and it goes to shit, Robinhood has to come up with the funds to buy back those shares.

It would make them insolvent as a company, which is a much worse situation than not allowing people to buy into it temporarily.

There's some more info on their type of accounts here.

Now, does that make Robinhood the good guy in this situation? Of course not. If anything, it proves their business model has some massive flaws in it. Seeing that they want to IPO soon, investors may be hesitant now to invest in a company that has shown time and time again to have problems.

Just take a look at their controversies section if you want to get an idea of how often they've been exploited or have delivered an unreliable product. This isn't the first time they've been in hot water, and I doubt it'll be the last.

Reuters isn't on here yet, but I would assume the dev will get to it once enough people send in a paywall confirmation email to them

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox

Around 100 other paywall sites on the list now.

You know you can link the content directly without having to create footnotes? Use brackets around text and parenthesis around the URL for example. Reddit doesn't support all mark down, but depending on your client there should be a formating help link to illustrate what is available with examples.

The podcast Trump Conlaw did a great episode about this that really explains the historical perspective comparing Twitter to other similar issues of public forum.

Also I'd recommend the podcast for other episodes too. It's got good depth while still being accessible and entertaining.

Is this good or bad?

As a few honest academics point out, (https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/the-science-of-energy-resources-and-power-explained.html) academic junkets are generally a waste and could be accomplished through video conferencing. For instance, it would be extremely problematic to have 100 people use air transportation to travel to a conference on climate change (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/amp/How-to-fly-to-a-climate-change-summit-In-a-13231466.php), or to spend tens of thousands of dollars sending bureaucrats to conferences on poverty in person, when those resources could be redeployed to help the people they ostensibly support.

There are many super low cost video conference platforms. Now would be a perfect time to do the right thing

> Free version for those that are paywalled like me.

Ah, sorry! I use uMAtrix, which breaks a lot of things, including many paywalls.

Thanks for the alternative source!

Right. This is an opinion article (not-tagged as such, btw) by a guy who wrote a book titled "A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media."

> They are asking S&S to NOT treat “the Trump administration as a ‘normal’ chapter in American history.”

> Your argument boils down to: assuming that this is normal, this is normal.

It's pretty normal for former members of a presidential administration to write books, is it not?

There are a lot of things that are abnormal about the Trump presidency and I think it would be both interesting and valuable to hear about it from the inside, even taking into account the perspective the writings would be from (which is always important in these kinds of books).

Take Henry Kissinger, whom many perceive to be a literal war criminal, I'd still read his book and consider it a valued addition to the culture, I would just remember who was writing it.

> Your litmus test presumes that the political spectrum is symmetrical

From the point of view that one side has their story and so does the other side, they are symmetrical. Historically, as many perspectives on an event are valuable, even if we consider those people "wrong". To go full Godwin's Law, Mein Kampf is still published today.

This Android app gets around some paywalls for me and it's basically a reader mode so it's easier to read to boot. The Outline web site is also often used as a workaround.

Its not uncommon for Supreme Court Justices to publish books; however this is typically done after they've served for some time.

For example, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who started serving on the Supreme Court in 1993, wrote a book in 2018, "My Own Words".

By comparison, Barrett has only served a few months.

In my opinion, Supreme Court Justices should be barred from non-salary income, as that can inappropriately sway their opinion, or at least have the appearance of impropriety. To compensate for this, I would have no issues with increasing their salary.

> An internal investigation by the C.I.A. has found that its officers penetrated a computer network used by the Senate Intelligence Committee in preparing its damning report on the C.I.A.’s detention and interrogation program.

This was dramatized in The Report, FYI.

I use the firefox focus browser and can turn off javascript in the settings. I think firefox mobile can also use add-ons, but I'm not sure if ublock-origin is available on mobile.

Not a problem. I'm.a big gun guy so I love to see people exercise their 2A rights.

The Mossberg 590 is a shotgun, and probably a fairly good one at that. If you haven't shot a gun before, keep in mind a shotgun will kick a fair bit, I know when I first shot one (probably around 8) I had a big bruise for a week haha.

If you're worried about kids, I'd suggest looking into trigger locks or cable locks

The trigger lock is simple. It locks over the trigger so that the trigger cannot be pulled. You can still keep the gun loaded in a closet (or unloaded if you prefer) but a kid is unable to do any harm, accidental or on purpose.

The other one, the cable lock is similar in that it locks the gun open this means the gun cannot fully close, ensuring a round cannot be chambered, nor fired unless removed. If used on a pistol, it will go through the magazine hole, preventing a magazine to even be loaded.

These are safe, yet still accessible ways to lock up your self-defence guns. I would also suggest styles similar to the ones I've linked. A code is much easier to remember, than a key is to kind. Morso, a code is harder for a kid to guess, than a key is to find.

A safe always sounds like a good idea, however if you take to long to access your gun, you would be better off with a baseball bat.

Anyhow, I hope you have a good life and fun with the family dipping your toes into gun culture.

Am statistician, can confirm that statistics are absolutely subject to being manipulated to further an agenda, political or otherwise.

A good book on the matter is:

Damn Lies and Statistics

You should give &quot;So You've Been Publicly Shamed&quot; by Jon Ronson a read. It covers different stories somewhat similar to this and explores the consequences. The book's fairly nuanced with some interesting ideas.

Probably one of my favorite books I've read this year.